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o Leads Kept By Graham, Alan Ameche Philadelphia (U.R) Time tested Otto Graham and rookie Alan (The Horse) Ameche re tained the No. 1 spots in passing and rushing as the National foot Ball league reached the one-third point in the season. Graham, yanked from the lux ury of retirement when the Cleveland Browns sputtered during the exhibition games, had aa9.32-yard average gain for each pass he attempted in four games to date. Automatic Otto is hitting at a 61.4 percentage with 35 completitons for 531 yards. Ameche, fresh from the Wis consin campus, had a 476-yard total gained on the ground for the Baltimore Colts, a figure which had him 145 yards ahead of second place Howie Ferguson of Green Bay. Ameche piled up 72 yards last week. Graham and Ameche clung to the first place spots they held one week ago, but the six games played in varying degrees of . weather, caused shuffles among the runners up. Fran Rogel of the Pittsburgh Steelers, with 90 yards ripped off against the Philadelphia Eagles, rose to third place among the rushers with 282 yards. VagarUs Show The vagaries of the statistics columns were shown when Bob by Thomason of the Eagles jump ed into second place in passing despite the fact the , Steelers stopped the Eagles' air game cold. Thomason has an 8.95 av erage, with 44 completions for 697 yards and five scores. Ed die LeBaron of Washington drop ped from second to third. Billy Howton and Gary Knaf- elc of the surging Green Bay Packers took over the first two places in pass receptions. How ton leads with 21 for 355 yards and Knafelc is second with 18 completitions. Billy Wilson of San Francisco is third with 16. Defending champion Pete Pihos of the Eagles, who had only one catch last week end, and Harlon Hill of the Bears tied for fourth with 15. . The Redskins' Vic Janowicz held first place in scoring with 40 points. Other leaders were Norm Van Brocklin of Los An geles in punting with a 45.1-yard average; Joe Heap of the Giants in punt returns; Jerry Norton of the . Eagles in kickoff returns, and Willard Sherman of the Rams in interceptions. Staters Gird For Cougars Corvallis (U.R) The Oregon State Beavers polished their of fense today as they planned their revenge against the Washington State Cougars for last year's 34-6 defeat. Coach Tommy Prothro said tailbacks Joe Francis and Ray Westfall were passing effectively against the reserves during a hard scrimmage yesterday. Oregon State College, Corval- lif Washington State, a grid machine that finally has come to life after some unexpected early reversals, invades Parker stadium here next Saturday aft ernoon for a homecoming clash against Tommy Prothro's deter mined Oregon State Beavers. An "old grads" throug up wards of 15,000 is expected, which means that thousands of , good seats are' (till available at all Beaver ticket agencies. Park er stadium can accomodate 27,000 at absolute capacity. The game will start promptly at 1:30 pjn. Bad Start Al Kircher's Cougars got off to a bad start this season, losing on successive weekends to USC, Kansas and UCLA. They began to click against California, and garnered a 20-20 tie at Berkeley before whipping an inspired Ida ho eleven, 9-0, at Moscow last weekend. . The Beavers, after downing Brigham Young and Stanford, lost to UCLA and College of Pa cific. Local fans are confident that Oregon State will play its best football against WSC, how ever, with a home crowd looking on. Over the - long series with WSC dating back to 1903, the e cougars nave emerged victorious on 21 occasions, with Oregon State winning 19 and tieing two. Prothro's men came out of the COP game in good physical con dition and could be at top strength for the first time since nine men suffered injuries in the UCLA contest. End Norm Thiel and tackle Howard Buettgenbach both failed to see action against COP, but should be ready for WSC. Juran, Yarnell Vie for Berth Eugene (U.R) Herb Juran of South Salem and Larry Yarnell of Klamath Falls are battling it out for starting quarterback job on the Oregon Frosh football team which meets OSC Rooks at Corvallis tomorrow. Willard Reeve is the likely fullback starter with Gene Schutzler of Oswego and Charles Tourville of Alhambra, Calif., at the halfbacks. MedforivSmTribuki SIPdDDRTrS Cock Pheasants Released In Jackson County Areas Portland (U.R) The weekly report on hunting conditions prepared by the Oregon State Game Commission: SOUTHWEST: Prospects for waterfowl hunting in Coos and Curry counties are fair to poor for oDenine of the season Oc tober 22 as not too many birds are in the area yet. Native bird populations in Jackson county are high, and hunters should find birds any where in the valley. Cock pheasants have been released in Sams valley and on Camp White lands. Prospects in Douglas are very good for opening of the pheasant season. NORTHWEST: Proipects for pheas ant hunter appear excellent in all counties in the north Willamette val ley. More than 1500 adult pheasant cocks have been liberated in Clack amas. Marion. Washington, and Yam hill counties within the past two weeks. Wild birds are numerous in all of the better habitats. Hunting .. n th. hiintpr'i choice area of Tillamook burn. Deer now in heavy cover areas, unances vesi nuiiu v Wilson river in that area open to hunters' choice season. Waterfowl hunting should be fairly good on coastal bays with good numbers of pintails and baldpate ducks present and some geese emigrating through. Pheasant and quail hunting in the south Willamette valley should be fair to good on opening wee end. Water fowl hunting is expected to. be slow except on a few of the better ponds. CENTRAL: Pheasant hunting should be fair to good in Wasco. Sherman, and Jefferson counties. Quail hunting will be fair in Wasco county, good in Sherman county, and excellent in Jefferson county. Waterfowl hunting will be poor. The big flights of ducks and geese have not arrived. Hunters choice hunting success has been best in the upper Crooked river area and around the fringes of the forest and on the ranches on the north and south sides of the Maury mountains. Hunt ing should be good in the Metolius river area and on Green ridge. The fringe areas between Bend and Sis ters should produce some good deer. There are a lot of deer in the lodge pole areas around Lapine if the hunt ers can get them out of the thickets. NORTHEAST: Either sex deer sea son has been good in most counties was in sagebrush areas and near culti vated lands, Deer numing snouia con tinue good for the balance of the sea son. Best success for pheasant hunt ing will be in Umatilla county. Pheas ants will be found mostly along the creek bottoms and lower areas, but after that they will move up to wheat fields and brushy draws in the foot- Smith Keeps Lightweight Mitt Mantle By JACK CUDDY Cincinnati. Ohio (U.R) Wallace (Bud) Smith, elated at ending Jimmy Carter s fantastic "on again, off again," romance with the liehtweieht champion ship, said today, "I guess every body will realize I'm really tne 'champeen' now." Although Smith was champ ion when he entered.the ring at the Cincinnati Garden before 6,693 hometown fans for his first defense Wednesday night, Carter of New York was favored at 8-5 to win back the 135- pound crown. But Bud's aggressive, left hooking attack prevented the 31-year-old Carter from winning the title for the fourth time, al though Bud was nearly knocked Out in the 13th round of the thrilling, bruising 15 -round fight. Smith wound up with a unani mous decision, after more than. a half -hour of calculating and correcting .the addition of one of the judges. A 'Rubber' Match It was the third and "rubber" match between the two Negroes the best combination boxer punchers in the 135-pound div ision. Carter had won a dicision over Bud on May 28, 1950 before Jimmy first ' became champion.' " Smith took the title from Car ter on a split decision at Boston last June 29. And he made it definite with the unanimous ver dict on Wednesday nighf. - Smith won by improving on the tactics which gave him his upset June victory over Shuf flin Jimmy. He want after the hard-hitting ex- champion with an aggressive left-hooking at tack that prevented Carter from forcing 'the fight. Carter want ed Bud to back pedal and be come a long-range target for his booming right. Gash Over Eye : Bud's left hooks opened a gash on the ex-champ's right brow. By the close of the ninth, the eye had swollen shut and Jimmy was "running with only one headlight. But Smith took plenty of pun ishment before he wound up with the verdict his 32nd, in 49 fights. Carter, suffering his 20th defeat in 100 bouts, nicked Bud's right brow in the sixth round also, and he hurt the champ badly with three right smashes to the head and one left hook to the same target in the seventh. Smith's knees were buckled by a right in the ninth. He was shaken twice by upper cuts in the 12th and he was on the verge of a kayo in the 13th when staggered by a left hook and almost floored three times by the bombardment that followed. hills. Grant, Union, and Baker coun ties will be fair. Best of luck will be in the Keating. Richland, and Halfway areas. Valley quail should be very good in Grant and Umatilla counties. Hungarian partridge hunting will be good in Umatilla county. Waterfowl hunting will be fair to poor except for decoy hunting in several of the choicest spots. Goose shooting will be poor. There are some geese on the Snake river. SOUTHEAST: Summer lake manage area estimates 125,000 geese monthly snows, 20,000 ducks, and nearly 1500 honkers in the area. Prospects for hunting are fair to good if weather remains clear and good to excellent if stormy weather prevails. Pheasant hunting will be very good the first week end. Pheasant hunting in Lake county will be poor. Harney county fair. Waterfowl hunting in Harney county poor. Malheur poor for both pheasants and waterfowl. Irish Given Slim Odds Over Purdue By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Notre Dame's still - aching Irish collide Saturday with a fellow who whipped them pret ty soundly last year pass pitchin' Lenny Dawson of Pur due and that's why the odds- makers figure Notre Dame will be the only team in the nation's top 10 to have trouble on the gridiron this week. Dawson, the nation's top touchdown passer of 1954, toss ed four scoring passes last year as Purdue upset Notre Dame, 27-14. The Irish went on an un beaten streak after that game that ended only last week when they were upset by Michigan State, 21-7. Now the "wizards of odds" make Notre Dame a seven-point favorite over Purdue. Every oth er team in the "top 10" is favor ed by at least 13 points. The contrast to the problems facing the lOth-ranked Irish, Michigan's top ranked Wolver ines are expected to beat Minne sota this Saturday by 13 points in the annual "Little Brown jug" classic at Minneapolis, a game that will be regionally televised in the Midwest. Maryland Strong Favorite Second-ranked Maryland and third - ranked Oklahoma are even stronger favorites at 15 points. Maryland will face Syra cuse, the team that upset Army by 13-0 last week. Oklahoma will meet Colorado in perhaps its most important game of the Big Seven conference season. Fourth - ranked Navy, boast ing the nation's top ground-gain er in passing ace George Welsh, is picked by a thundering 32 points over Pennsylvania. Fifth-ranked UCLA is a 13- point favorite over Iowa in a a big intersectional game that highlights the Friday night pro gram. Sixth-ranked Michigan States is favored by 13 over Illinois in a Big Ten clash. Sev enth-ranked Duke is picked by the odd sum of eight points over Pittsburgh. ' Eighth-ranked Auburn, rid ing high after a win over Georg ia Tech., is such a prohibitive choice over Furman that no points are quoted. Ninth -ranked Southern California is favored by 20 points in its Pacific Coast conference clash with Califor nia. Televised The Southern Cal - California clash will be regionally -televised in the Midwest. In games that will be televised in the East, Princeton and Cornell are rated down even money and Harvard is a six-point choice over Dart mouth. . ' The college- football "week end" gets an early, start Thurs day with the annual. '.. "Big Thursday" clash of Clemson and South Carolina at- Columbia, S.C. Clemson is favored by six. , On Friday night, in addition to the UCLA-Iowa struggle, Mi ami (Fla.), is picked by four over Texas Christian and Oklahoma A&M by one over Detroit. In other Saturday games: Intersectional: Tulsa seven over Cin cinnati; Missouri seven -over-Arkansas: West Virginia 12 over Perm State; Boston College 13 over Marquette, SMU 14 over Kansas. East: Yale seven over Colgate. Army 27 over Columbia. South: North Carolina State and Wake Forest even; Kentucky seven over Florida; Georgia seven over Tu lane, Mississippi State 13 over jUa bama. Midwest: Iowa State three ever Kansas State; Missouri three over Ne braska; Indiana six over Northwest ern; Wisconsin seven over Ohio State. Southwest: Rice three over Texas: Texas Tech six over Houston; Texas A&M six over Baylor. Far West: Oregon State six over Washington State; Utah seven over Wyominc; Washington seven over Stanford. LUMAN'S SLICED BACON PRICE ON PAGE 2 SECOND SECTION ' Champs Vie For Olympic Games Fund New York (U.R) Wes San- tee, Paul Anderson, Hayes Alan Jenkins, Tenley Albright and a bevy of other world and na tional champions will compete in six sports during . tonight s Olympic Festival at Madison Square Garden. The program will open a nation-wide fund-raising drive to raise the estimated one million dollars needed to send the na tion's top amateur athletes to the winter Olympics next Jan uary at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and to the summer competition the following November at Mel bourne, Australia. Santee, the lanky ex-Kansas star who ranks as the nation's top miler will get an early warm up for his 1956 indoor campaign when he runs in the featured mile. Anderson, the 332-pound Toc coa, Ga., lad who has been thrill ing Europeans with his strength, heads a weight-lifting trio fresh from triumps in the world championships at Munich, Ger many. Jenkins and the slender Miss Albright, two of the country's best bets for gold medals at the coming winter games, will dem onstrate some of the talent that enabled them to win world and U.S. figure skating championships. Thursday. October 20. 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THUtTlXN Stocking of Fish Near Completion i'onianri iiniv trip pyppcc brood stock and holdover steel head and salmon remain to be Dlanted for thp 1055 vpar it announced today by Reino Kos ki, liberation chief, Oregon Game commission. During the period January 1 to September 1, 1955, a total of 11,738,520 fish weighing 530, 084 pounds were released from game commission hatcheries. Approximately 3,000,000 of these fish were of legal size which became available to the angler immediately upon release. All fish of legal size were Dlant ed by the Labor Day week end, with the heaviest stocking tak ing place in waters where the fishing pressure was the great est. The remaining fish were fing er lings -and fry. with the major portion allocated for reservoirs and lake basin areas. Approxi mately 750,000 fry and finger lings were planted by aerial lift into 350 high lakes in the Cas cade range and the Wallowa mountains. The major portion of the fish reared in game commission hat cheries were eastern brook and rainbow trout. All salmon and steelhead raised were marked and released at migrating size in order to obtain a maximum re turn of adult fish. K'litiKks Finest p YEAR OLD I LJ J.I JlirA KENTUCKY sinci 1810 I MntitD amo somco mr mmu. mo nam nmun eo, tunmmm. i SAUER SIGNS " Chicago (U.R) Hank Sauer, power-house slugger of former seasons who batted only .211 in 79 games this past season, be came the first player to sign Durocher To Complete Broadcasting Contract Hollywood (U.R) Leo Duro cher made clear today that he would not consider any baseball managerial offer before be com pletes a one-year contract with the National Broadcasting Co. "Nobody has made me an of fer and even if they did, I would not accept it, even if it were for eight million dollars a year," Durocher told NBC sportscaster Cleve Hermann in an interview last night. "I have a contract with NBC and I honor my contracts. If I didn't I would have retired lasi year when I wanted to. But I had a contract with Horace Stone ham, owner of the New York Giants for one more year and I kept my end of it. I intend to do the same thing with the con tract I have with NBC." 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